Radiation Therapy for Bladder Cancer

At Scott & White, we use Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) during the course of our radiation oncology treatments in areas of the body that are prone to movement. IGRT is the use of frequent imaging during your radiation therapy treatment to ensure absolute accuracy of treatment.

Benefits of IGRT include:

Patient and tumor motion tracked with the use of image guidance

Radiation beam adjusted in response to current tumor image to maintain accuracy and reduce likelihood of harming nearby tissue

As technology has gotten better, we've found that we can deliver much higher doses of radiation, where we’re killing a lot more cancer, or cancer cells, than we were before. We can deliver the radiation to the tumor and spare the normal tissues around the tumor, which is allowing us to have much better outcomes and much higher tumor control.